Test Canvas - Abnormal Psychology (37-113 Answer Key)

37. Multiple Choice: ___________ is generally defined as a... Question Points: 1 ___________ is generally defined as a procedure designed to change abnormal behavior into more normal behavior. Answer Assessment Treatment Remediation Psychodiagnosis Correct Feedback Correct. Incorrect Feedback Incorrect. The correct answer is B. 38. Multiple Choice: In the middle ages in Europe, people ... Question Points: 1 In the middle ages in Europe, people who suffered the bite of a "wolf spider" believed that the only way to rid themselves of the resulting symptoms was to do a dance called a: Answer purificado. chastenette. tarantella. sanctifica. Correct Feedback Correct. Incorrect Feedback Incorrect. The correct answer is C. 39. Multiple Choice: Which German physician was the first ... Question Points: 1 Which German physician was the first to specialize in mental illness and is now considered the founder of the modern study of psychopathology? Answer Wilhelm Wundt Hippocrates Sigmund Freud Johann Weyer Correct Feedback Correct. Incorrect Feedback Incorrect. The correct answer is D 40. Multiple Choice: The main difference between a psychia... Question Points: 1 The main difference between a psychiatrist and a psychologist is: Answer a psychiatrist is usually a psychoanalyst while a psychologist is usually a behaviorist. a psychologist is a medical doctor; a psychiatrist is a researcher who studies illnesses. a psychiatrist is a medical doctor who can provide therapy; a psychologist is NOT a medical doctor but can provide therapy. a psychiatrist works exclusively in hospitals, while a psychologist works exclusively in mental health clinics. Correct Feedback Correct. Incorrect Feedback Incorrect. The correct answer is C. 41. Essay: Psychological abnormality may include... Question Points: 0 Psychological abnormality may include deviance, distress, dysfunction, and danger. First explain what these terms mean regarding psychological abnormality. Second, provide an example of a time when each aspect of abnormality would not be considered abnormal. Answer 42. Essay: Suppose a friend of yours says to you... Points: 0 Question Answer Suppose a friend of yours says to you, “I feel really lousy today, and I don't know why. You're taking abnormal psych—what do you think?” If, after your conversation with your friend, your friend feels better about things, have you provided psychological therapy? Why or why not? Hint: You might want to mention the essential features of therapy in your answer. 43. Essay: What is demonology? How does demonolo... Question Points: 0 What is demonology? How does demonology stand in the way of a more complete understanding of the causes and treatment of psychological abnormality? Answer 44. Essay: Detail the views of any three of the ... Question Points: 0 Detail the views of any three of the following individuals about the diagnosis and/or treatment of psychological abnormality. Be sure to mention approximately when and where each lived, as well. Hippocrates Emil Kraepelin Dorothea Dix Philippe Pinel Friedrich Anton Mesmer Benjamin Rush William Tuke Answer 45. Essay: Assume that Benjamin Rush and Dorothe... Question Points: 0 Assume that Benjamin Rush and Dorothea Dix suddenly appeared in the twenty-first century, about fifty years after the U.S. policy of deinstitutionalization began. What would they think about our treatment of the “mentally ill”? What suggestions might they make for changes in our policy of deinstitutionalization? Answer 46. Essay: Contrast somatogenic and psychogenic ... Question Points: 0 Contrast somatogenic and psychogenic perspectives about abnormal functioning, and provide at least one example of evidence supporting each perspective. Answer 47. Essay: According to your text, deinstitution... Question Points: 0 According to your text, deinstitutionalization has resulted, in part, in large numbers of people with severe psychological disturbances either becoming homeless, or ending up in jail or prison. Is deinstitutionalization an ethical thing for the United States to continue doing? Back up you answer with specific examples. Answer 48. Essay: Increasingly, people seeking treatmen... Question Points: 0 Increasingly, people seeking treatment for mental health reasons are members of managed care programs. How are managed care programs changing how psychological services are provided? Answer 49. Essay: The following types of mental health ... Question Points: 0 The following types of mental health professionals work in the area of psychological abnormality; describe the differences in how they are educated, and in what they do: clinical psychologists psychiatrists clinical researchers Answer 50. Essay: Create a time line on which you place... Question Points: 0 Create a time line on which you place five major events in the history of abnormality. Briefly describe why each event is important to our understanding of abnormality. Answer Points: 0 51. Fill in the Blank: The aspect of the definition of abnor... Question The aspect of the definition of abnormality that characterizes behavior as different from the norm is ______. Answer deviance 52. Fill in the Blank: The explicit and implicit rules that ... Question The explicit and implicit rules that a society establishes to govern conduct are referred to as ______. Answer norms 53. Fill in the Blank: Ken is so anxious that he is miserabl... Points: 0 Points: 0 Question Ken is so anxious that he is miserable. This represents the aspect of the definition of abnormality called ______. Answer distress 54. Fill in the Blank: Colleen is so afraid of open spaces t... Question Colleen is so afraid of open spaces that she cannot leave her house to go to work. This represents the aspect of the definition of abnormality called ______. Answer dysfunction 55. Fill in the Blank: Heather has been called to heaven and... Question Heather has been called to heaven and the only way to get there is to kill herself. Killing herself represents the aspect of the definition of abnormality called ______. Answer danger 56. Fill in the Blank: The idea that the behaviors we label ... Question The idea that the behaviors we label abnormal are just problems in living has been proposed by ______. Answer Thomas Szasz 57. Fill in the Blank: While some clinicians will refer to t... Question While some clinicians will refer to the person they are treating as a patient, others will refer to the person as a ______. Answer client 58. Fill in the Blank: The crude early form of surgery in wh... Question The crude early form of surgery in which a hole was made in the skull of a person presumably to allow evil spirits to escape was called ______. Answer trephination 59. Fill in the Blank: The procedure that a priest or other ... Question The procedure that a priest or other powerful person might perform to drive evil spirits from a person is called ______. Answer exorcism 60. Fill in the Blank: ______ believed that abnormal behavio... Points: 0 Points: 0 Points: 0 Points: 0 Points: 0 Points: 0 Points: 0 Question ______ believed that abnormal behavior was caused by brain pathology resulting from an imbalance in the four humors of the body. Answer Hippocrates 61. Fill in the Blank: The “parent” of modern me... Question The “parent” of modern medicine was ______. Answer Hippocrates 62. Fill in the Blank: A person who believed that he was a w... Question A person who believed that he was a werewolf suffered from ______. Answer lycanthropy Points: 0 Points: 0 63. Fill in the Blank: The forerunner of today's community m... Question The forerunner of today's community mental health programs can be traced back to a fifteenth-century town in Belgium called ______. Answer Gheel Points: 0 64. Fill in the Blank: The treatment that people with mental... Question The treatment that people with mental problems received in Gheel was like the ______ therapy that appeared later in history. Answer moral 65. Fill in the Blank: The physician who instituted a series... Question The physician who instituted a series of reforms at La Bicêtre asylum and “unchained” the mental patients was ______. Answer Pinel 66. Fill in the Blank: The treatment for mental illness espo... Question The treatment for mental illness espoused by the Frenchman Pinel and the Englishman Tuke was called ______ treatment by their contemporaries. Answer moral 67. Fill in the Blank: The American advocate for laws mandat... Question The American advocate for laws mandating better care for the mentally ill was ______. Answer Dorothea Dix 68. Fill in the Blank: The view that physical causes are at ... Question The view that physical causes are at the root of mental illnesses is the ______ perspective. Answer somatogenic 69. Fill in the Blank: The somatogenic view of mental illnes... Question The somatogenic view of mental illness was given a boost in the 1800s when it was discovered that general paresis was caused by ______. Answer syphilis 70. Fill in the Blank: The use of psychotherapeutic medicati... Question The use of psychotherapeutic medications fits into the ______ model of mental illness. Answer somatogenic 71. Fill in the Blank: The inducement of a trancelike state ... Question The inducement of a trancelike state in which a person becomes extremely suggestible is called ______. Answer hypnosis 72. Fill in the Blank: Psychological causes are at the root ... Question Psychological causes are at the root of mental illness, according to the ______ perspective. Answer psychogenic 73. Fill in the Blank: The originator of psychoanalysis was ... Question The originator of psychoanalysis was ______. Answer Sigmund Freud 74. Fill in the Blank: The major development in the treatmen... Question The major development in the treatment of the mentally ill in the second half of the twentieth century was the development of psychiatric ______. Points: 0 Points: 0 Points: 0 Points: 0 Points: 0 Points: 0 Points: 0 Points: 0 Points: 0 Points: 0 Points: 0 Answer drugs 75. Fill in the Blank: The reduction in the number of people... Question Points: 0 The reduction in the number of people housed in mental hospitals in the last forty years can be attributed to a trend called ______. Answer deinstitutionalization 76. Fill in the Blank: Moving the focus for the care of the ... Question Moving the focus for the care of the mentally ill out of hospitals is part of the ______ approach. Answer community mental health 77. Fill in the Blank: The largest group of professionals wh... Question The largest group of professionals who provide mental health services are ______. Answer psychiatric social workers 78. Fill in the Blank: The degree that psychiatrists hold is... Question The degree that psychiatrists hold is the ______. Answer M.D. or D.O. 79. Multiple Choice: One who systematically gathers inform... Question Points: 0 Points: 0 Points: 0 Points: 0 One who systematically gathers information in order to describe, predict, and explain abnormality is a clinical: Answer mentalist. legalist. scientist. practitioner. 80. Multiple Choice: If you wanted a career in which you f... Question Points: 0 If you wanted a career in which you focus on detecting, assessing, and treating abnormal patterns of functioning, you should look into becoming a: Answer clinical practitioner. clinical researcher. clinical historian. clinical statistician. 81. Multiple Choice: The explicit and implicit rules for p... Question Points: 0 The explicit and implicit rules for proper conduct that a society establishes are referred to as: Answer norms. culture. morality. conventions. 82. Multiple Choice: Behavior that violates legal norms is: Question Behavior that violates legal norms is: Answer deviant and criminal. distressful and criminal. deviant and psychopathological. distressful and psychopathological. Points: 0 83. Multiple Choice: The history, values, institutions, te... Question Answer The history, values, institutions, technology, and arts of a society make up that society's: Points: 0 laws. norms. culture. conventions. 84. Multiple Choice: Which of the following depressed peop... Question Points: 0 Which of the following depressed people would be the least likely to be diagnosed with a mental disorder—because of specific circumstances? Answer someone whose mother was depressed someone whose community was destroyed by a tornado someone who was experiencing a chemical brain imbalance someone who was also an alcoholic 85. Multiple Choice: R. D. Laing said, “Insanity&mda... Question Points: 0 R. D. Laing said, “Insanity—a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.” This statement illustrates: Answer how dangerous most mentally ill people actually are. that abnormality is situational. that everyone is a little eccentric. that drug use causes people to become mentally ill. 86. Multiple Choice: That 42 percent of people go to churc... Question Points: 0 That 42 percent of people go to church and 39 percent snoop in their hosts' medicine cabinets demonstrates the principle that: Answer deviance is culturally defined. behavior that is not really dangerous can nevertheless be considered abnormal. statistical deviance is not the same thing as abnormality. behavior that is not distressful is not abnormal. 87. Multiple Choice: If a person experienced anxiety or de... Question Points: 0 If a person experienced anxiety or depression following a significant natural disaster, we would say that the person was: Answer suffering from a mental illness. deviant but not dangerous. exhibiting a typical reaction. statistically deviant. 88. Multiple Choice: People who engage in frenetic, manic ... Question People who engage in frenetic, manic activity may not experience distress. They are: Answer nevertheless considered to be abnormal. not abnormal because abnormality requires distress. doing something illegal, not abnormal. no longer considered abnormal, but were in the past. Points: 0 89. Multiple Choice: A person who is so miserable that he ... Question A person who is so miserable that he or she can see no reason for living, BEST fits which of the following definitions of abnormality? Answer deviance Points: 0 distress dangerousness dysfunction 90. Multiple Choice: An individual has a 9-to-5 job. Howev... Question Points: 0 An individual has a 9-to-5 job. However, this person seldom gets up early enough to be at work on time, and expresses great distress over this fact. This individual's behavior would be considered abnormal because it is: Answer dysfunctional. deviant. dysfunctional and deviant. dangerous. 91. Multiple Choice: Which aspect of the definition of abn... Question Points: 0 Which aspect of the definition of abnormality includes the inability to care for oneself and work productively? Answer distress deviance dysfunction danger to self or others 92. Multiple Choice: A Secret Service agent steps in front... Question Points: 0 A Secret Service agent steps in front of the President of the United States, prepared to be killed or injured if the President's safety is threatened. Psychologically speaking, the Secret Service agent's behavior is: Answer functional, but psychologically abnormal. functional, and not psychologically abnormal. dysfunctional, and psychologically abnormal. dysfunctional, but not psychologically abnormal. 93. Multiple Choice: Which of the following examples would... Question Points: 0 Which of the following examples would NOT be considered abnormal, despite the fact that it is dysfunctional? Answer someone who is too confused to drive safely someone who parties so much that he or she cannot go to class someone who goes on a hunger strike to protest social injustice someone who cannot stay alone for even one night 94. Multiple Choice: Research shows that danger to self or... Question Answer Research shows that danger to self or others is found in: all cases of abnormal functioning. most cases of abnormal functioning. some cases of abnormal functioning. no cases of abnormal functioning. Points: 0 95. Multiple Choice: Despite popular misconceptions, most ... Question Despite popular misconceptions, most people with psychological problems are not: Answer dysfunctional. Points: 0 dangerous. distressing. deviant. 96. Multiple Choice: According to Thomas Szasz's views, th... Question Points: 0 According to Thomas Szasz's views, the deviations that some call mental illness are really: Answer mental illnesses. problems in living. caused by ones early childhood experiences. eccentric behaviors with a biological cause. 97. Multiple Choice: A researcher spends 15 or more hours ... Question Points: 0 A researcher spends 15 or more hours per day conducting experiments or doing library reading and records observations on color-coded index cards. This person lives alone in the country, but doesn't interfere with others' lives. The best description of the researcher's behavior is that it is: Answer eccentric. abnormal. dangerous. dysfunctional. 98. Multiple Choice: College students who drink so much th... Question Points: 0 College students who drink so much that it interferes with their lives, health, and academic careers are often not diagnosed as engaging in abnormal behavior because: Answer the behavior is not illegal. they are just considered eccentric. they don't help anyone but themselves. drinking is considered part of college culture. 99. Multiple Choice: Defining abnormal behavior using &ldq... Question Points: 0 Defining abnormal behavior using “the four Ds”: Answer allows us to create diagnoses that are clear-cut and not debatable. allows us to eliminate those who are merely eccentric. allows us to include those who experience no distress. is still often vague and subjective. 100. Multiple Choice: Lady Gaga and other eccentrics are us... Question Points: 0 Lady Gaga and other eccentrics are usually not considered to be experiencing a mental illness because: Answer they are not deviant. they freely choose and enjoy their behavior. they are only dangerous to others, not to themselves. while they are distressed by their behavior, others are not. Points: 0 101. Multiple Choice: Which of the following is NOT a chara... Question Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of eccentrics noted by researchers in the field? Answer being a poor speller having a diagnosable mental illness being creative enjoying one's life 102. Multiple Choice: Studies show that eccentrics are more... Question Points: 0 Studies show that eccentrics are more likely than those with mental disorders to say: Answer I feel like my behavior has been thrust on me. I'm different and I like it. I am in a lot of pain and I suffer a great deal. I wish I were not so “unique.” 103. Multiple Choice: Clinical theorist Jerome Frank would ... Question Points: 0 Clinical theorist Jerome Frank would say that all forms of therapy include all of the following except a: Answer series of contacts. healer. third-party payer. sufferer who seeks relief. 104. Multiple Choice: One who sees abnormality as a problem... Question Points: 0 One who sees abnormality as a problem in living usually refers to those seeking help with their problems in living as: Answer pupils. patients. trainees. clients. 105. Multiple Choice: Several researchers have shown that i... Question Points: 0 Several researchers have shown that in a typical year in the United States about what percentage of adults show disturbances severe enough to need clinical treatment? Answer under 1% 5-10% 10-15% over 15% 106. Multiple Choice: Which of the following “new dia... Question Points: 0 Which of the following “new diagnoses” would one experiencing overwhelming concern about being bombarded with excessive information on the Internet most likely receive? Answer eco-anxiety terrorism terror crime phobia cyber fear 107. Multiple Choice: Which of the following “new dia... Question Which of the following “new diagnoses” would someone experiencing overwhelming concern about the Points: 0 security of travel on planes and subways most likely receive? Answer eco-anxiety terrorism terror crime phobia cyber fear 108. Multiple Choice: Which of the following “new dia... Question Points: 0 Which of the following “new diagnoses” would someone experiencing overwhelming concern about where the safest neighborhoods and schools are most likely receive? Answer eco-anxiety terrorism terror crime phobia cyber fear 109. Multiple Choice: The use of exorcism suggests a belief... Question Points: 0 The use of exorcism suggests a belief that what we call mental illness was caused by: Answer germs. poisons. evil spirits. psychological trauma. 110. Multiple Choice: A person seeking help for a psycholog... Question Points: 0 A person seeking help for a psychological abnormality is made to drink bitter herbal potions and then submit to a beating, in the hope that “evil spirits” will be driven from the person's body. This form of “therapy” is called: Answer exorcism. shaman. couvade. trephination. 111. Multiple Choice: If you were being treated by a shaman... Question Points: 0 If you were being treated by a shaman, you would most likely be undergoing: Answer psychoanalysis. gender-sensitive therapy. community-based treatment. an exorcism. 112. Multiple Choice: Hippocrates believed that treatment f... Question Points: 0 Hippocrates believed that treatment for mental disorders should involve: Answer releasing evil spirits trapped in the brain. bringing the four body humors back into balance. punishing the body for its sins. bloodletting. 113. Multiple Choice: Hippocrates attempted to treat mental... Question Hippocrates attempted to treat mental disorders by: Answer hypnotizing patients. Points: 0 chaining patients to walls. correcting underlying physical pathology. encouraging patients to speak about past traumas.